Emma Grede

You know, it's like, yeah, I could make, you know, a dinner for six people when I was 12.

But that's been a really useful skill.

I could clean the house.

I could do a parent-teacher conference at 12 years old.

I was raised in a way where there was no other choice.

And so there's a maturity level that comes with that.

There's a lot of less, I guess, less forgiving and less kind of great things that come out of that.

But at the end of the day,

it was a net positive for me because by the time I was in the workplace, which again was very young because I dropped out of high school, I had such a bar, like I knew how to get things done.

I was such a self-starter because nobody ever woke me up for school.

I had to wake everybody else up and make packed lunches and iron school shirts and get three kids out of their house.

Sometimes I would just go home and watch Oprah, I wouldn't even bother.

um but you know for me it was not an imposition it was like i got a head start in life because this was my reality and um when i got into the workplace i was like wow i am so capable i'm so bloody capable and so i think that when you take you know and i think about this with my own kids you know because i do have four and nobody they they have everything done for them

And somehow it kind of robs you from like like who you're going to be, you know, and I'm like trying to I'm not trying to manufacture hardship for my kids.

But sometimes I think I should do, you know, like they would be so much more capable.

But I think it's a huge part of who I am and why I have done what I did, because there was there was no one.

There was no one out there coming to get me.

I took full responsibility for myself.

And at the end of the day, this book is about self-leadership.

It's about self-responsibility and this really great stuff.